So I guess December is the official cookie baking month, right? I don’t feel so bad about making/eating cookies in November and December. Diets are what January is for. I consider myself quite the cookie connoisseur but I realized last month that despite my love for all things peanut butter, that I’ve never made peanut butter cookies from scratch. Of course, I had to remedy this immediately. Brandon had a cookie craving one night and didn’t want to wait the requisite 36 hours for chocolate chip cookies so I found this recipe and whipped it up. I LOVED how fast and easy these were to make. This recipe also had more peanut butter in it than any others I found, and I don’t think you can go wrong with more peanut butter.
While I liked these cookies a lot, I couldn’t help but think that peanut butter always tastes better with chocolate. I remembered a cookie recipe I saw where they dipped the cookies in melted chocolate and then let it set. I tried this with some of the batch I made and it just brings the cookies to a whole new level. Truly irresistible, so irresistible that we ate all the chocolate dipped cookies before I could take pictures of them.
Fast forward to this past weekend when I got another cookie craving after seeing these Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies on Erin Cooks. These are also very simple and fast to make, but they weren’t nearly as peanut-buttery as the other recipe. Since you have the chocolate chips in there, you don’t mind so much. But I did ratchet it up even more but using half peanut butter chips and half chocolate chips. So good!
Both recipes are pretty similar as far as the actual peanut butter cookie part goes, but I think I’ll be going with the first recipe (posted below) next time since it was so much more peanut-buttery, though I might throw in some chocolate chips, too. I just can’t resist that combination! I don’t even want to think about making that AND dipping it in melted chocolate. That would just be pure evil disguised in chocolate-peanutbuttery goodness.
Irresistible Peanut Butter Cookies
adapted from Food.com
Dessert | Yield: 36 cookies
Prep time: 15 min | Cook time: 8 min | Total time: 30 min
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 1/4 cups brown sugar, firmly packed
- 3 tablespoons milk
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 1 egg
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
Optional chocolate dip:
- 1 1/2 tsp. butter
- 1 1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
Process
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Combine peanut butter, butter, brown sugar, milk, vanilla and egg in large bowl. Beat at medium speed of electric mixer until well-blended.
- Combine flour, salt and baking soda. Add to creamed mixture at low speed. Mix just until blended.
- Drop by heaping teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart onto ungreased or parchment lined baking sheet. Take a fork and dip it in some vegetable oil, then dip into a bowl of sugar. Flatten a drop slightly in a crisscross pattern with the fork. Repeat with each drop, dipping the fork in the sugar again after each one.
- Bake at 375 degrees for 7 to 8 minutes, or until set and just beginning to brown. Cool 2 minutes on baking sheet before removing to cooling rack.
- Optional: After the cookies have cooled, melt chocolate chips and butter on the stove or in the microwave. Use a smallish pan/container, something that you can fit the cookie into, but that’s not too wide (or you won’t get enough chocolate on the cookies, aim for 1/4 to 1/2 submersion). Dip your cookies in one at a time and lay out on wax or parchment paper to cool and set, 30 minutes to an hour.
Note: I found that for this and other recipe I linked to, that cook time depends on when you plan on eating these. If you want to eat these straight from the oven, I recommend you add 2-3 more minutes or else they will be gooey to the point of being undercooked. Adding the time will make the outside darker and a bit crispier, but they will be more done in the middle. However, if you plan to serve either recipe at a party or event the next day, DO NOT overbake them, because once they sit overnight they will be set and will still be very soft and chewy, while the overcooked ones will be harder and crispier.
beaaauuuutiful! is it ok to ask which camera you use?
Thanks! And sure, it’s definitely ok to ask, but I’m actually kind of ashamed of my camera. LOL. I desperately want to upgrade to a better camera (particularly a Canon), but can’t afford the price tag. For now I’m using my two year old Kodak Easyshare Z650, which I think is a great little beginner camera for people just getting into photography (as I was when I bought it). I particularly love its macro setting, which is usually what I keep it on for food shots.
What a great post! Love the blog!
Well now. It goes without saying that these cookies must be dipped in chocolate. They just MUST!!!! A batch of these wouldn’t last 2 minutes with us.
Wow fantastic ideas for my next lunch with my friends.
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I love this recipe! I made a batch of the peanut butter cookies and mmmm they look good, smell good and taste good!
These look delicious!
I love mixing in chocolate chips & peanut butter chips too … I don’t think you can go wrong with peanut butter and chocolate!
I think you would appreciate my recipe on how to make peanut butter balls – let me know what you think! Thanks for sharing.
— Tatiana
Just made these cookies for the first time and they are totally delicious!!! Thanks for the great recipe!
Thankyou so much for this recipe. These peanut butter cookies are the best. I always add chocolate chips to mine. I did find that mine came out best when I baked them for ten min, whether eating them straight from the oven or freezing them. When I did eight min to freeze they seem to crumble easily. Anyway, they are great and they kept their chewiness. Did not get hard one bit the next day.
Just made (and ate) these peanut butter cookies!! Awesome! Added chocolate chips to the last half of the batch and made them even better! Very easy to make and about 10 min cooked them perfectly! Thank you!
Love your website! Thanks for taking the time to share with everyone.
These cookies tasted AMAZING! They don’t even take that long to bake which is a plus!
Want to make them even faster? Just mix up 1c peanut butter, 1c sugar and 1 egg. Oven at 350. They are delicious and very very simple!
I have tried SO many cookie recipes. I just came to say this is the one I have been waiting for! Added mini chocolate chips because cookies are just better that way. Thanks so much for sharing and keep up the great work!